MAYBACH COMAND AND REAR-CABIN AUDIOVISUAL SYSTEM User manual

OPERATOR’S MANUAL
COMAND AND REAR-CABIN AUDIOVISUAL SYSTEM
Grafik in der Größe 216x79 mm
in den Grafikrahmen importieren!
Order-No. 6515 6819 13 Part No. 240 584 89 71 USA Edition A 2009
OPERATOR’S MANUAL COMAND AND REAR-CABIN AUDIOVISUAL SYSTEM

Welcome to COMAND and the rear-
cabin audiovisual system!
Please make yourself familiar with your
COMAND and rear-cabin audiovisual sys-
tem control units and read the instructions
in this manual before operating the
COMAND and rear-cabin audiovisual sys-
tem. This will help you derive a greater
benefit from the system. Please also follow
the instructions and warnings contained in
this manual. Ignoring them could result in
damage to the vehicle or personal injury to
you or others.
Depending on model, version and configu-
ration, your COMAND and rear-cabin au-
diovisual system equipment may differ.
Therefore, you may find explanations for
optional equipment not installed in your
vehicle. If you have any questions about
the operation of any equipment, your au-
thorized Maybach Studio will be glad to
demonstrate the proper procedures.
We continuously strive to improve our
product and ask for your understanding
that we reserve the right to make changes
in design and equipment. Therefore, infor-
mation, illustrations and descriptions in
this manual might differ from the equip-
ment installed in your vehicle. As such, the
information, illustrations and descriptions
contained in this manual may not be rea-
sonably relied upon in making any claims
with respect to the actual performance of
the product.
These operating instructions form an inte-
gral part of the vehicle and should there-
fore always be kept inside the vehicle and
passed on to the new owner if the vehicle
is sold.
We extend our best wishes for many miles
of safe, pleasurable driving.
Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC
A Daimler Company

Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Where to find it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Operating safety. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
At a glance – Front Cabin. . . . . . . . . . 13
Radio operating elements . . . . . . . . . 14
CD operating elements . . . . . . . . . . . 16
MP3 operating elements . . . . . . . . . . 18
Satellite radio operating elements . . 20
Telephone operating elements . . . . 22
Navigation operating elements. . . . . 24
General information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Vehicle equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Multifunction steering wheel . . . . . . 27
Selecting the multifunction
display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Audio search function . . . . . . . . . 29
Voice Control System . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Menu system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Opening main menus . . . . . . . . . . 31
Menu display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Menu functions and submenus . . 32
Quick reference COMAND . . . . . . . . . 34
System structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Switching ON/OFF. . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Setting sound volume. . . . . . . . . . 35
Changing operation mode . . . . . . 37
Control of the rear cabin control units
from the front cabin (driver) control
unit.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Balance and fader . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Bass and treble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Sound functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
System Settings - Front Cabin. . . . . . . 45
System settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Vehicle equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Calling up the System menu . . . . . 46
Selectable soft keys . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Setting the date/time. . . . . . . . . . . 46
Selecting the language . . . . . . . . . 48
Switching confirmation beeps and
acoustic signals ON/OFF . . . . . . . . . 49
Display settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Voice control settings . . . . . . . . . . 50
Reset function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Audio - Front Cabin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Audio main menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Vehicle equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Calling up the Audio main menu . 56
Selectable soft keys . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Mute function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Radio operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Switching to Radio mode . . . . . . . 57
Switching to Radio mode . . . . . . . 57
Switching wavebands . . . . . . . . . . 57
Tuning to an FM / AM station. . . . 58
Tuning to a station on Weather
Band . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Storing of stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
CD operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
General information . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Tips on caring for your CDs. . . . . . 64
Switching to CD mode. . . . . . . . . . 64
Loading a CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Ejecting a CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
CD main menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Selecting a track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Fast forward/reverse . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Playback options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
MP3 operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Tips on data storage media . . . . . 70
Tips on caring for your MP3 CDs . 70
Tips on creating MP3 CDs . . . . . . . 71
Tips on creating MP3 tracks . . . . . 72
Tips on copyright. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Switching to MP3 mode . . . . . . . . 72
Loading a MP3 CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Ejecting a MP3 CD . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
MP3 main menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Contents
Selecting folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Selecting a track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Fast forward/reverse . . . . . . . . . . 77
Playback options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Audio AUX operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Switching to AUX mode . . . . . . . 78
Satellite radio – Front Cabin . . . . . . . 79
General information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Vehicle equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Introduction to satellite radio . . . 80
Satellite radio operation . . . . . . . . . . 81
Calling up the SAT main menu . . 81
Soft key functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Selecting a station. . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Obtaining additional text
information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Storing of stations. . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Calling the SIRIUS Service Center 86
Telephone – Front Cabin . . . . . . . . . . 87
Important notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Vehicle equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Safety Instructions. . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Tips on telephone operation . . . . 88
Notes about Bluetooth®
connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Telephone operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Switching the phone ON/OFF . . . . 91
"911" emergency calls . . . . . . . . . . 91
Entering the PIN (only GSM) . . . . . 93
Entering the unlock code. . . . . . . . 93
Switching to telephone mode . . . 94
Telephone main menu. . . . . . . . . . 94
Selectable soft keys and options . . 95
Answering an incoming call. . . . . . 95
Outgoing call / Dialing a phone
number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Accepted and missed calls . . . . . . . 97
Dialed calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Speed dial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Establishing a connection . . . . . . 100
Active call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Phone book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Opening the phone book . . . . . . 102
Selecting a phone book entry and
establishing the connection . . . . 103
Adding spoken names to a phone
book entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Deleting a phone book entry . . . 104
SMS (Mail). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
SMS inbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Reading a message. . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Deleting a message . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Exiting from the SMS menu. . . . . 107
Navigation – Front Cabin . . . . . . . . . 109
Important notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Vehicle equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Safety instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Navigation DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Loading/ejecting the DVD . . . . . 111
Travelling abroad. . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Route guidance with GPS . . . . . . 112
Route guidance after vehicle
transport. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Trip interruption during route
guidance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Selection lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Navigation main menu . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Calling up the Navigation main
menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Avoiding certain road types . . . . 115
Adjusting the acoustics for
voice announcements . . . . . . . . . 115
Destination input. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Entering data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Entering a home address. . . . . . . 118
Destination entry menu . . . . . . . 119
Entering a destination. . . . . . . . . 120
Selecting the region . . . . . . . . . . 120
Entering a city . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Narrowing of the destination after
selecting a city . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Contents
Entering a city center . . . . . . . . . 122
Entering a street in the destination
city . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Narrowing of the destination after
selecting the street . . . . . . . . . . 124
Entering an intersection. . . . . . . 125
Entering a house number. . . . . . 125
Entering a destination using the
map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Entering a destination via
geo coordinates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Storing map location . . . . . . . . . 129
Route guidance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Starting route guidance . . . . . . . 131
Route calculation . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Route re-calculation . . . . . . . . . . 131
Voice announcements . . . . . . . . 132
Navigation displays. . . . . . . . . . . 132
Destination reached . . . . . . . . . . 135
Cancelling route guidance . . . . 135
Partially digitized areas . . . . . . . 135
During route guidance. . . . . . . . . . . 139
Showing soft key displays . . . . . 139
Info menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Displaying the route on the
map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Displaying the route list . . . . . . 140
Detour function . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Stopover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Defining route guidance displays 145
Setting symbol displays . . . . . . . . 145
Setting map orientation . . . . . . . 146
Map display menu . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Automatic map toggling . . . . . . . 148
Scales for full-screen and split-screen
map display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Last destinations and destination
memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Last destinations memory . . . . . . 150
Destination memory . . . . . . . . . . 151
POIs (Points of Interest). . . . . . . . . . . 154
Entering POIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Selecting POI in the local area of the
current location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Selecting POI for a selected city . 156
Selecting POI for a long-distance
destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Selecting a POI using the map. . . 158
Software update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Voice Control System – Front Cabin. 161
Important notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Vehicle equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Functional overview. . . . . . . . . . . 163
Command types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Active system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Activation/deactivation of
Voice Control System. . . . . . . . . . 164
Activating Voice Control. . . . . . . 164
Deactivating Voice Control . . . . . 164
Setting volume level . . . . . . . . . . 165
Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Telephone operation . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Telephone operation. . . . . . . . . . 166
Telephone commands . . . . . . . . . 167
Phone book operation . . . . . . . . 170
Phone book commands. . . . . . . . 170
Radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Radio operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Radio commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
CD player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
CD player operation . . . . . . . . . . 178
CD player commands. . . . . . . . . . 178
MP3 player. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
MP3 player operation . . . . . . . . . 179
MP3 player commands . . . . . . . . 179
Command list. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
General commands . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Telephone commands . . . . . . . . . 182
Audio commands . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Sub commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Practical hints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Help function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Help commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Help screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Contents
What to do.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Visual help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Individualization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Service - Front Cabin . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Tele Aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Vehicle equipment . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Emergency call system . . . . . . . . 192
Roadside Assistance . . . . . . . . . . 192
Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
At a Glance - Rear Cabin . . . . . . . . . 195
Radio operating elements . . . . . . . . 196
CD operating elements . . . . . . . . . . 198
TV operating elements . . . . . . . . . . 200
DVD operating elements . . . . . . . . . 202
Telephone operating elements . . . . 204
Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Vehicle equipment . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Menu system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Calling up main menus . . . . . . . . 210
Menu display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Menu functions and submenus . 211
Quick reference. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
System structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Switching ON/OFF . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Setting sound volume . . . . . . . . 213
Changing operation mode . . . . . 215
Headphones operation . . . . . . . . 217
Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Balance and Fader . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
System Settings - Rear Cabin . . . . . . 223
System settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Vehicle equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Calling up the System menu . . . . 224
Selectable soft keys . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Setting the date/time . . . . . . . . . 225
Setting the language . . . . . . . . . 226
Switching confirmation beeps and
acoustic signals ON/OFF . . . . . . . 227
Display settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Voice control settings. . . . . . . . . . 229
Reset function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Audio – Rear Cabin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Audio/Video main menu . . . . . . . . . . 232
Vehicle equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Calling up the Audio/Video main
menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Selectable menu items . . . . . . . . 232
Switching between audio/video
source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Mute function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Switching active audio/video source
on/off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Radio operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Switching to radio mode . . . . . . 234
Switching wavebands . . . . . . . . . 234
Tuning to an FM/AM station . . . 235
Tuning to a station on Weather
Band . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Storing stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
CD operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Tips on caring for your CDs . . . . 241
Switching to the CD mode . . . . . 241
CD changer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Loading CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Ejecting CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
CD main menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Selecting CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Selecting a track . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Fast forward/reverse . . . . . . . . . . 250
Playback options . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Video - Rear Cabin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
TV operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Vehicle equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . 254
General Information . . . . . . . . . . 254
Switching to TV operation . . . . . 254
Tuning-out of image and audio . 254

Contents
TV display and TV status bar . . . 254
Program selection . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Program storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
TV basic settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
DVD operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . 262
General information . . . . . . . . . 262
DVD Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Switching to DVD operation . . . 263
DVD display and DVD status bar 265
DVD display functions . . . . . . . . 265
DVD menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Settings menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Interactive contents . . . . . . . . . . 274
Video AUX operation. . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Front Telephone – Rear Cabin . . . . . 277
Important notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Vehicle equipment . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Tips on telephone operation . . . 278
Notes about Bluetooth®
connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Telephone operation . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Switching the phone ON/OFF. . . 280
"911" emergency calls . . . . . . . . 280
Entering the PIN (only GSM) . . . 282
Entering the unlock code . . . . . 282
Switching to telephone mode . . 283
Telephone main menu . . . . . . . . 283
Selectable menu items and
options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
Answering an incoming call . . . . 284
Placing an outgoing call . . . . . . . 285
Accepted and missed calls . . . . . 286
Active call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
Phone book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
Opening the phone book . . . . . . 290
Selecting a phone book entry and
establishing the connection . . . . 291
Adding spoken names to a phone
book entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
Deleting a phone book entry . . . 292
SMS (Short Message Service). . . . . . . 293
SMS inbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Reading a message . . . . . . . . . . . 294
Deleting a message . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Exiting from the SMS menu . . . . 295
Service - Rear Cabin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Tele Aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
Vehicle equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . 298
Emergency call system . . . . . . . . 298
Roadside Assistance . . . . . . . . . . 298
Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Contents

9
Where to find it
Introduction
 Where to find it
This Operator's Manual is designed to
provide support for you, the COMAND or
rear-cabin audiovisual system operator.
Each chapter has its own guide color to
provide fast access to information.
At a glance - Front cabin
Here you will find an overview of all
COMAND control elements of the driv-
er’s (front cabin) control unit. The fol-
lowing chapter "General Operation"
contains the description of the basic
functions, and of the interactions be-
tween the various control units and the
menu system. Study this chapter thor-
oughly if this is your first attempt to op-
erate COMAND.
System settings - Front cabin
This part contains information concern-
ing the necessary system settings for the
COMAND at the front-cabin control unit.
The following second part of the operat-
ing instructions covers the operation of
the rear-cabin control units.
Audio - Front cabin
This part contains all information for the
Audio system, which includes the compo-
nents Radio and CD, and their control at
the front-cabin control unit.
SAT - Front cabin
This part contains all information for the
satellite radio system, and its control at
the front-cabin control unit.
Telephone - Front cabin
This part contains all information re-
quired for the operation of the tele-
phone at the front-cabin control unit,
including emergency calls.
Navigation - Front cabin
This part contains detailed information
for the operation of the Navigation sys-
tem at the front-cabin control unit, cov-
ering the following topics:
Destination entry
Route selection
Route guidance
Destination memory
Voice Control System - Front cabin
This part contains all information for the
Voice Control system, which includes all
functions, commands, practical hints
and preferences.
Service - Front cabin
This part contains information concern-
ing Tele Aid.

10
Introduction
Where to find it
At a glance - Rear cabin
Here you will find an overview of all con-
trol elements of the rear cabin control
units. The then following chapter "Gen-
eral operation" contains the description
of the basic functions, and of the interac-
tions between the various control units
and the menu system. Study this chapter
thoroughly if this is your first attempt to
operate the rear-cabin system compo-
nents.
System settings - Rear cabin
This part contains information concern-
ing necessary system settings for the au-
diovisual system at the rear-cabin control
units.
Audio - Rear cabin
This part contains all information for the
Audio system, which includes the compo-
nents Radio and CD, and their control at
the rear-cabin control units.
Video - Rear cabin
This part contains all information re-
quired for the operation of the Video
system, with its components TV and DVD,
at the rear-cabin control units.
Due to the switchover to all-digital TV
networks, the TV function is disabled in
devices produced for the US market.
Telephone - Rear cabin
This part contains all information re-
quired for the operation of the tele-
phone at the rear-cabin control units,
including emergency calls.
Service - Rear cabin
This part contains information concern-
ing Tele Aid.
Index
The index will help you quickly locate the
information you need.